Sheryld,
I dont have the problem of bleach here.But we were at his moms last wk and she had washed her teapot( yes her teapot),with javex,and it hit you as soon as you walked in.
I tried to stay to visit,but I told her I had to leave because of the smell of javex.I dont think she believed me,but I was sick for days after.

Now here at home, food smells can make me sick,when I make certain things,( chick,almost any meat) it makes me nauseus.So I go in my room and open a window.And I have every window in my apartment open,and patio doors. But the smell holds on tight!!

Coffee is my worst.Especially Tim Hortons!! Has a rank smell to it.Just driving by it makes me sick.But my husband knows and tries to be carefull!!

and pour water with a slight sent of bleach in it. After a while he will eathier get tired of the no complaining or your skin will get used to the bleach.
While I was a milltary wife, I had the hives just to have the sprays or chemicals in the house, but the husband never thought that bleach was a true chemical that it was the best for the floors, I ended up letting him clean the floors and gaining muscle because of all his hard work.

But what I came up with was just to have a talk with him...I told him he needs to really help me out with all of this..Just like my food he cooks..Or what ever it may be...I am just trying to get better...

It must be very frustrating for him. I was already a chemical gimp when I met mine, so he doesn't know me any other way. but it was tough to train him, he's still absent minded. I used to think he just din't care because it wasn't his problem, but I've learned he's just absent minded ab out everything and always was. His family and friends have well informed me, and told me many hilarious stories. An d I've had some doozies to tell th em too.

As for your hubby, he's jsut learning along w/ you. And he did know you when you were normal, so it has to be baffling for him. I totally know how it is for you. and the hardest for me was when I was trying to figure out what the freak it is this time. That's the worst isn't it. YOu have to try and cut him some slack, and show him some empathy too. It really helps to get them in your corner.

Not all men of course, but mine takes the cake. So for a little levity, I'll tell you a recent story.

I have new sheets on the line (from Christmas no less) that are still outgassing to suit little miss sensitive here. Ron was mowing the lawn and you'd think he'd notice the sheets dragging on the ground a mile away and know to be careful, go around them, or pin them up. Something besides mowing over them.

Here's the kicker - he was using a rotary mower, a push mower. It wasn't even a power lawn mower than got away on him. Luckily he only smulched the corner of the fitted sheet, where it will tuck under. But jeepers creepers. Where does his head really go?

Sheryl -- Bleach is horrible!!!! One smell of bleach puts me into severe symptoms for the rest of the day.

It is very difficult for people to understand. My mother uses chemicals constantly, even after many years of my explaining, crying, yelling......still doesn't get it. So, I don't think it's just a man thing. It's just very hard for people to comprehend this level of sensitivity.

I would offer him an alternative, as Storm suggested. I use oxy-clean. My stubborn, creature of habit, mother has even taken to it.....so there is hope

If you give him an altnernative, perhaps it will take away some of his frustration with not being able to use anything. When he then sees how well oxy works, he won't miss bleach!

I just can't believe the number of husbands who actually do laundry and clean !!!!!!!!!

I know I am awfully hard on my DH because he does not do these things .... I keep reminding myself that he is working two jobs and just doesn't have time, and that he does actually do a FEW things for me now that he never used to!

I would be like everyone else ... purchase an alternative to bleach for him to use.

Now my newlywed son has to do HIS OWN laundry because he made the mistake of telling his new wife that she did not fold his blue jeans correctly (like his mother does--me!)!! So she told him that if she couldn't fold his laundry to suit him, that HE could just do it all himself!! So, he has been doing his own laundry for about a year now!! If he has any questions on how to get a stain out, he calls me when she is gone!!

I just walked down the isle today to grad some laundry soap..My laundry soap..didn't even think of getting him an alternative..LOL

But just walking down that isle I thought I was going to pass out for about 10 min. afterwards...

I don't think there is anything wrong with a guy doing his own laundry...I think it's great...My husbands Mom always did his laundry for him and ironed all of his clothes..The works...But when he started living with me he did his own..

His clothes are dirty and I need to use a special soap so that's how it got started..

He will gladly use any alternative...I just need to get it...I think I will try the Borax..

It is amazing how once you take away things and then you bring them back a while later how much more extreme it's affects are...Like since it had been a while since he used bleach it just really bothered me..it always does but this time it was bad...

I think his frustration is a lack of comunication on my part...I just need to tell him what really bothers me instead of...Goll did you dump the whole bottle of bleach on your clothes!!....LOL